The kindergardener in the house is very interested in telling time, mostly because she wants a REAL watch but I told her I wouldn’t buy her one unless she could tell time on something non-digital. You know, like an actual clock.

We used to have phones with chords, too.

I just blew their minds.

After we realized we’d be hunkering down for most of the day yesterday (weather, tornado warnings etc) we got out our supplies:

Paper
Marker
Scissors
Tape

I started by writing all the numbers on cardstock paper and then cutting them out.

Once I had all the numbers (1-12) we started taping the 12, 6, 3 and 9 and went from there filling everything in. Something about the law of opposites. Same rule when changing a flat tire. The star … any way.

Aha! A clock on the wall! Wait. Where are the hands?

That’s better.

Now you can sit down and bark times out and watch the learning lights brighten.

Needless to say, she had a blast. She came home with a note from school a week or so ago letting me know that she had counted to 100 in fives so I applied that kind of logic to the clock to help her understand that the long hand tells time by counting in fives. So the One? Is really Whatever’o’clock:oh-five.

After a few practice runs and some counting in fives all together … she got the hang of it. Six is Thirty and Nine is Forty-five.

She’ll have herself a watch by Christmas, that one.